Buzzard sends this as part of a message on the Gulf Air crash:

: This was not a U.S. plane, not in U.S. airspace, and did not
: have a U.S. pilot; yet they are sending the black boxes
: here to "determine the cause" of the crash. Maybe
: its just me but this seems a little strange. Could it be
: that the NTSB is very adept at adding information to the
: black box recordings?

Here is a news agency confirmation of what Buzzard's saying:

Story Filed: Friday, August 25, 2000 10:12 PM EST

ABU DHABI, August 26 (Itar-Tass) -- Air accident experts said on Saturday they failed to open black boxes of the A-320 airbus that crashed off Bahrain's airport earlier in the week.

Experts of the Airbus Industry company, who arrived in Manama to investigate into the causes of the crash, also failed to get access to the data contained inside the black boxes, the managing director of the plane's owner, the Gulf Air company, told a news conference.

>> The boxes will be flown for analysis to Europe, he said. <<

The director confirmed once againt that crew commander Ihsaan Shakeeb, who worked with Gulf Air for 21 years, was among the company's best pilots, and the crash could have hardly been caused by his mistake.

Later it became known that the black boxes will be analysed in the United States, not Europe. They are to be handed over to
the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board on Saturday, a report from Washington said.

An international commission has been set up to determine the causes of the crash. It comprises experts from the United
States, France, Great Britain, Bahrain, Oman and a group of Airbus Industry officials.

The A-320 plunged into the sea at 1929 GMT on Wednesday, killing 135 passengers and eight crew members. 36 victims were children.

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Did all of those thirty-six children die because the Chinese were communicating to us -- the British and the U.S. -- through an American diplomatic courier, or was there a need to stop him from delivering whatever he was in possession of at the time? Or was there yet another courier on board that flight?

And after TWA 800, how much does the air-travel industry still trust the NTSB?